The Official Release Date!

The official release date of SHEAR MAGIC is June 2009. Just around the corner! LOL I wish it were so it would not be 29 degrees outside as it is today. Anyway, you may be able to preorder on the website: www.thewildrosepress.com

SHEAR MAGIC: In this classic romance story, a conservative rancher and a free-spirited photographer are forced to share more than a common lake in the steamy New Mexico desert. There they must decide--are wealth and property worth more than love? Becky Chambers becomes a fish out of water when she and Slate Lawson learn they have both inherited half of the same ranch in New Mexico--now they must learn what is really important in life.



Have a great weekend!

Lori

P.S. Don't forget to defrost that turkey!

Kids Say the Darndest Things in 2008 an LTB

Those are my angelic little boys--years ago. As in life, things have changed. Let me explain. As I use my Internet computer, my oldest often sends me IM's(I'm guessing my youngest lives by the cliche, out of sight, out of mind. He's such a pip). The term IM should be familiar. You all know that is an instant message. They pop up and scare me because a bell rings and I'm tempted to turn around and yell, "Come in!" Okay, often times I do.

The oldest is usually in class in college and multitasks as the youth of today often do. Sometimes I give him a cyber holler to pay attention to class, other times I just write: leave me alone I'm writing, but today he got my attention.

Here's how his IM went. I've cut and pasted it for you kids so you get the full blown effect. He is DeadSexy277(in his opinion) I am Authormommy (because he set up my account), and I'm sure he wanted to embarrass me in front of the world. Oh, well, I have a tough skin. Get out your hankies. Here goes:

DeadSexy277 (11:03:07 AM): thank you for loving me
DeadSexy277 (11:03:14 AM): you're a good mommy
authormommy (11:03:23 AM): You been drinking?

That is the actual IM and my witty, as usual, response. I got all teary eyed though and didn't want him to know! He'd razz me for it unmercifully. However, all I can say is: What a way to start my day!

THEN, he continues to tell me that he is kidding. KIDDING! Because late last night he IM'd with "if you really love me, please put $25 more in my ATM account. I'd forgotten. Grrr. Yes, I did put the money in because, unfortunately, the giant needs to eat. That was the gist of his email.

I told him he at least could have let me revel in his words a few days, or hours or at least seven minutes!

Kids in 2008 do say the darnedest things, and, believe me, they are nothing like the ones who used to entertain us on the old Art Linkletter Show! As my grandmother has told me. Really.

Lor--who is consoling herself with the notion that at least her son didn't lie--even though she wished he had for a few brief moments!

More Old News an LTB

Now you've probably guessed my blog is once again about the news from years ago. I have one more tidbit I just had to share with you. A bride and a groom. I'm sure your imaginations are running wild! What could this "old news" be about? Hey, this is more fun than reading an edge of the seat thriller! NOT! Okay. Okay. You don't have to hit Lori over the head with a great, big, hardcover- bestseller.

Hear me out though for a chuckle.

1883--One hundred twenty-five years ago. Caption reads: The Conundrum. (I think that word is 125 years old. Feel free to Wikipedia it. The issue: Who will be the first bride and groom to occupy the elegant bridal chambers (yes, it said chambers and not suite) at The Winthrop Hotel? Oh...my...gosh. How did those folks deal with such earth-shattering problems!? Now this was no ordinary chamber. It was known as the "most elegant bridal chamber in New England." And it was right in the town that I grew up in. Believe me, things have changed on the "elegant" scale in low those many years too.

On the edge of your seat? Who was the luckiest couple alive in New England circa 1883?

Ta da! The MAYOR'S daughter! lol Some things just haven't changed. Sigh.

So, enjoy your day and if you feel stressed, imagine yourself in 1883, wondering who will get to snore the night away on their honeymoon in the elegant bridal chamber! Or better yet, think back to YOUR honeymoon days.(if you've never had one, imagine a honeymoon scene from a Johnny Depp movie. You'll have a much better time!)

Lori--whose honeymoon was coming to CT from NM while in the Air Force! Elegant? I think not. I'm remembering a big party in my folk's...garage.

Politically Correct? an LTB

Hey Kids, I just had a thought. Maybe I should run a contest and have you guess what the title of my blog has to do with the picture. I'm sure some days you are shaking your heads, trying to figure out the commonality. Sometimes, so am I!

Okay. Those ladies obviously are the old-time phone operators. Some of you may remember how we used to have to TALK to the operator to connect us to the number we wanted. NOT ME. No. No. No. I am not old enough, but I've heard...

Similar operators also used to do "wake up" calls. Well, I was reading my favorite part of the paper and on this day in 1883, here's what happened. This actually was newsworthy. Ah, the good old days.

Posted in the newspaper was a warning to husbands: One of the young ladies at the Telephone Exchange called up a customer this morning and was shocked with his salutation. It took her breath away! (I'm guessing she suffered the vapors) The man answered with, "Halloo, old girl. How are you?"

Yikes! That is what was politically incorrect in 1883 AND newsworthy? lol The man did apologize to her and said he thought it was his wife calling. Imagine if it really were? I'm thinking a little apology was not enough for the "old girl!" I'm thinking dinner, roses, chocolates and a ten cent weekly budget increase!

Today we have so many politically incorrect words/phrases that I can't keep up. Sometimes I'm afraid to say anything lest it insult some group. Imagine a world where "old girl" was the worse you could say? Imagine....

Me thinks we need to toughen up our skins nowadays.

Lori

Football Update

Yes, kids, that's me. Sigh. Sniff. My son's team lost. But, they did play a damn good game. No one scored the entire first half. Then, they lost 14-7. Alas, my football mom days are over.

One would think I'd write more with all my new free time. Huh!

Lor

Big Game Day!

Hey, Kids


Today is the first (and hopefully not the last!) game of my son's football playoffs. Good vibes are needed!

If you want to see pics of me, my sons and their dad, here's a link:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29793801@N04/sets/72157609005776054/show/

You all behave and have a wonderful weekend!

Lori

Give Me A Break an LTB

Those, kids, are germs. I know that because I'm a nurse and I scored in the 99% in Microbiology.LOL Still, they represent germs because today I was watching the news, and they did this segment on germs--on the grocery carts.


Oh...my...gosh. Do these news reporters have nothing else to do since the election is over? I mean, come on! Germs on the grocery cart handles, seat, and inside. They actually took swabs and sent them to the UCONN lab for results, which, amazingly enough, were not bad. That's the technical term the scientist used. "Not bad considering." There was one common germ they found on them that causes "swimmer's ear." Excuse me? I thought one needed water for that malady?

Do we really want to know if there are germs on the grocery carts where we put our food and our kids in those little seats? Not me. Germs are everywhere so why go looking for trouble. We'll be walking around in air bubbles pretty soon with our cell phones sterilized and stuck to our ears. We grew up with germs, which we never saw--thank goodness. Sometimes we got sick. Sometimes we didn't. Sometimes we washed our hands before eating. Sometimes we didn't wash our hands for weeks (those would be the boys). But we all lived to our ripe old ages(apparently covered in germs).

Today's society doesn't know the cliche about "let sleeping dogs lie." For those of you kids too young to know, that means "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Yikes. I better get all these stupid cliches out of the way before I start to write on my book! In other words, leave the darn germs be or they will rise up and reek havoc with us.

So, I say stop testing the universe for germs. They are all over and we can't get away from them. We're better off not knowing about them! Just cover your mouth when you cough, wash your hands and take vitamins(nothing to do with germs but my cousins took daily vitamins as kids and never got sick). Oh, yeah, stay away from people with colds! That's a no-brainer.

Hey, tomorrow is my son's first game of the play offs! Feel free to send me some good vibes and don't touch that...never mind.

Lori